=Variable assignments do not work
\QST
I wrote a paragraph like
$var = 120
to assign \C<120> to \C, but when I used it like in
The variable was set to $var.
\C was not replaced by the value.
\ANS
Just remove the spaces around the "=":
$var=120
\DSC
Because \B has to recognize PerlPoint controls amidst natural language it cannot handle whitespaces as
programming language parsers do - whitespaces are real tokens. Not accepting them in an assignment simplifies the parsers
paragraph type detection.